Four or five pens in one's shirt pocket is a dead giveaway for a nerd.
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Nerd
//nɜːd//
Synonyms for "nerd" (25 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (5)
Noun(5 words)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (12)
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1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
58 entriesShowing 16 of 58 words.
derived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 35 languages.
Algerian Arabic
2 entries- خَبَّاش noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- قَرَّاي noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Arabic
4 entries- اِنْطِوَائِيّ noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- غِيك noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- قرّاي noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- مُهَوَّس noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Armenian
3 entries- բոտանիկ noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- կրծող noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- ներդ noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 毒男 noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 书呆子 noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Czech
4 entries- nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- zažraný mimoň noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- šprt noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- šprtka noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Danish
1 entries- nørd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Dutch
1 entries- nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Esperanto
1 entries- nerdo noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Estonian
2 entries- nohik noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- tuupur noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Faroese
1 entries- nørdur noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Finnish
1 entries- nörtti noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
French
2 entries- intello noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
German
4 entries- Bücherwurm noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- Computerfreak noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- Fachidiot noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- Nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Greek
2 entries- σπασίκλας noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- φυτό noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Hebrew
2 entries- חְנון noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- לַפְלַף noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Icelandic
1 entries- nörd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Irish
1 entries- saoithín noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Italian
1 entries- secchione noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Japanese
4 entries- おたく noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- がり勉 noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- オタク noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- ナード noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Korean
1 entries- 오타쿠 noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Lithuanian
2 entries- moksliukas noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- moksliukė noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Malay
1 entries- nerda noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Malayalam
1 entries- ബുജി noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Polish
1 entries- nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Portuguese
3 entries- CDF noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- totó noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Romanian
2 entries- tocilar noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- tocilară noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Russian
4 entries- бoтáн noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- бота́ник noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- задро́т noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- зану́да noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- штребер noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Spanish
4 entries- cerebrito noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- chancón noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- empollón noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- friki noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Swedish
1 entries- nörd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Thai
2 entries- หนอนหนังสือ noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- เนิร์ด noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Turkish
2 entries- inek noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
- nerd noun (intellectual, skillful person, generally introverted)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
I'm not a nerd!
Source: tatoeba (1950145)
You're a nerd.
Source: tatoeba (1950146)
He's a nerd.
Source: tatoeba (1950147)
Showing 4 of 21 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.